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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which craft fascinates Carmelita?

2. What is the animal's name?

3. Who interrupts the call from the Dictator?

4. What time is the activity scheduled to take place?

5. Carmelita becomes enraged when the mugger damages her ______.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Alba? What does she say to try to dissuade Juana from leaving the convent?

2. What about the scene is so foreign to Arriero? What is his reaction?

3. Who is Dee? What is her history?

4. Why is the Prosecutor angry with Juana? What does Juana say to convince the Prosecutor that she knows her Bible?

5. Examine the scene in which Carmelita is walking home from the Tropicana.

6. What information does the Prosecutor demand from Juan(a)? What causes the Prosecutor to become suspicious of the stigmata? What are the stigmata?

7. Who is Aunt Nina? How does Carmelita describe the old woman?

8. Who phones Carmelita the next morning? What is the purpose of each call?

9. What happens to interrupt the tender moment between Juana and Maria Luisa? What major event occurs? Who appears on the scene?

10. Dee and others make comments about nutty women being incarcerated at the BMU. What was meant by that statement?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Carmelita Tropicana? What is her real name? What is the purpose of the book? Write a complete character description of Carmelita Tropicana as well as that of her alter-ego, Alina Troyano. Is there any difference between Troyano and Carmelita Tropicana? If so, what? Why did Troyano choose to become Carmelita Tropicana? What is the biggest impact made by Carmelita Tropicana​?

Essay Topic 2

After being arrested for participating in the protest, Carmelita, Desiree, Orchidia, Sophia and others were arrested and sent to the Behavioral Modification Unit. What is the BMU? Where is it located? What is the purpose of the unit? How does it relate to the government? What kind of activities occur at the BMU? Is it a prison? What types of crimes must one commit to be sent to the unit? What is the DNA Remodeling Action? Can someone's DNA be remodeled? If so, how? What types of programs are the inmates required to complete?

Essay Topic 3

Carmelita worked at the Tropicana in Havana before going to the United States. After Carmelita arrived in the United States she opened a similar nightclub, also called the Tropicana, in Manhattan. What types of nightclubs were the Tropicanas? Compare and contrast the two clubs. What were the biggest similarities? Did Carmelita operate both nightclubs? What happened to each club? Who was involved in the destruction of at least one of the clubs? Explain.

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